Coffelt
- Description
- Fruit is too small to be valuable for apples of the Ben Davis class which it belongs to (supposedly- it is said to be a seedling of the Ben Davis), but it is superior in eating. Liable to be roughened by spray.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather fine and tender, moderately juicy, subacid becoming mild, sprightly and aromatic
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- nearly smooth
- Skin color
- carmine striped, red, yellow, mottled
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- uniform, round, oblate
- General quality
- not high in flavor but good in eating
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 97.